WED 1 NOV 1944 NOVEMBER
Pacific
In Leyte Gulf, kamikazes sink destroyer Abner Read (DD- 526), 10°47'N, 125°22'E; and damage destroyers Anderson (DD-411), 10°11'N, 125°02'E, and Claxton (DD-571) and Ammen (DD-527), 10°40'N, 125°20'E. Destroyers Bush (DD- 529), 10°13'N, 125°21'E, and Killen (DD-593), 10°40'N, 125°20'E, are damaged by horizontal bombers.
Submarine Atule (SS-403) attacks Japanese convoy, and sinks transport Asama Maru in Luzon Strait, 20°09'N, 117°38'E.
Submarine Blackfin (SS-322) attacks Japanese convoy, and sinks auxiliary vessel Caroline Maru and transport No.12 Unkai Maru in Mindoro Strait, 12°54'N, 120°10'E.*
Submarine Ray (SS-271) sinks Japanese merchant tanker No.7 Horai Maru, 13°02'N, 120°17'E, and lands men and supplies on west coast of Mindoro.
British submarine HMS Storm sinks Japanese schooner No.3 Goenong Perak, 04°56'S, 120°59'E.
Mediterranean
Destroyer Benson (DD-421), although troubled by inadequate spotting, fires bombardment mission against railroads and troop concentrations.
*Submarine Ray (SS-271) may have torpedoed Caroline Maru as well.
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